Here's What The World's First Fully Painted Film Is Going To Look Like
This is the most brilliant idea for an artist's biopic imaginable.
This is the trailer for "Loving Vincent," which is slated to be the world's first fully painted feature film.
"Loving Vincent" is an upcoming biopic about the life of Vincent Van Gogh, and it looks like one of the coolest, most original and exciting film concepts I've ever seen. I can't imagine an artist's life to portray that would be more fitting than Van Gogh's.
The movie is being produced and developed by Breakthru Films and Trademark Films.
The majority of shooting took place in London. After shooting, the film's frames have been painted at a studio in Gdansk, Poland. More than 100 highly trained oil painters who work in the post-impressionism style of Van Gogh are employed by the studio.
The oil painters paint each frame of the film by hand. It's remarkable how accurately they depict Van Gogh's trademark style.
Here's a GIF depicting the animation process of one of the film's scenes, based on "The Night Café."
There are 12 hand-painted frames per second in the film. If the movie is 90 minutes long, this means there could be as many as 64,800 paintings in total.
This is, obviously, quite an undertaking. The film's website is still recruiting painters for the film through a rigorous five-step audition process. If you've got a talent for oil painting, you should check out the recruiting page. Your paintings could help comprise a milestone in film!
Here's a finished frame. You can clearly see Van Gogh's style seeping through in the artwork. Importantly, though, the actor's face still looks like his own.
It's like watching the world through Van Gogh's eyes, and that is one of the most noble (and surely challenging) artistic undertakings I've come across in quite some time.
Here's the poster for the film and the current cast.
There's no word of a release date yet, but I couldn't be more excited for the film. Take your time finishing it though, Breakthru films - it certainly has to be as close to perfect as it can be.